Process of treating cotton-seed meal, cotton-seed meats, and cotton-seed flour.



JESSE G. FALLS, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

PROCESS OF TREATING COTTON-SEED MEAL, COTTON-SEED MEATS, AND COTTON-SEED To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JEssE G. FALLS, a citizenmf theU-nited- States, residing at Memphis, Shelby County, and State of Tennessee, have invented and discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Treating Cotton-Seed Meal,-

Cotton-Seed Meats, and Cotton-Seed Flour,

of'which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a process of treating cotton seed meats, cotton seed meal,

\ or cotton seed flour, for the purpose of ronatural or partly cooked state have an objectionable flavor and odor which render them unsatisfactory as articles of food, or when used in combination with other food substances. I have discovered that the process of heating or super-heating the cotton seed meats, cottonseed meal, or cotton seed flour, to a high temperature destroys or removes this objectionable. flavor and odor and renders the product suitable for use as a food either alone or in combination with other substances.

In my process the cotton seed meatsmay be subjected directly to the heating process separately or in conjunction with other food products and the flavor and odor thereby eliminated. In my process the cotton seed meal or flour may be taken immediately as it comes from the oil mill and be subjected to the heating processor the meal or flour may be used in connection with other food products and by suflicient degree of heat, the odor and flavor be thus eliminated. In the treatment of the cotton seed meats, meal, or flour, it is heated or super-heated to as great a temperature as possibl'ewithout burning the same. The temperature employed in the process is 250 degrees F. and above, andthe treatment is continued until the product has become freefrom the natural odor and taste in its raw, or partially raw, state. The greater the temperature used the uicker the odor and taste are removed, leavlng the products with a brownish color. The cotton seed meats, cotton seed meal, or cotton seed fiour thus treated may be used either alone as a food product or in combination with other substances to form a highly nutritious and palatable food.

Having-thus described my invention, what I claim is: I r

1. The process of treating cotton seed meats, cotton seed meal, or cotton seed flour to produce a palatable food product, which consists in subjectingsaid meats, meal or FLOUR.

1,142,243. I specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 8, 1915.

No Drawing. Application filedAugust 23, 1913. Serial No. 786,279. I i

flour to a high temperature sufiicient to remove the disagreeable odor and flavor thereof, substantially as described.

2. The process of treating, cotton seed meats, cottonseed meal, or cotton seed flour to produce a alatable food product, which consists in su jecting said meats, meal or flour to a temperature sufliciently high to remove the disagreeable flavor and odor of same, substantially as described.

3. The process of treating cotton seedmeats, cotton seed meal, or cotton seed flour which consists in first subjecting the meats, meal or flour to a high temperature suflicient to remove the disagreeable flavor and odor of the meats, meal or flour to as great an extent as possible without burning same, and then using same with other food substances to form a food product, substantially as described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Memphis, Tennessee this 21st day of August, A. D. nineteen hundred and thirteen.

JESSE G. FALLS. [13.8.] I

Witnesses:

G. WORTHEN 0cm, JOHN W. FARLEY. 

